This is my job

[Emilia Tucker]

Maybe what Em was doing wasn't really fair to Hadley, she could see how uncomfortable this situation was for him since he didn't know what he could do to comfort someone who was still mostly a stranger to him. Although she'd spoken more to him in the past two hours than she had to anyone that she knew for a couple of weeks. She felt a bit embarrassed as he handed her another tissue and gave him an awkward smile when she dabbed at the few tears pooling in her eyes. Still, she had to admit that it felt better actually talking about Lukas than she would have thought. She hadn't even been able to say his name out loud since their fall to Earth and now she'd actually told someone about the moment that had send her whole world tumbling to pieces.
She gently put her hand on Hadley's and shook her head when she noticed that he seemed to feel guilty about making her talk about her dead fiancé.

„There's nothing you have to feel sorry for! It's just...I try not to think about it and distract myself with work, but that moment just keeps playing over and over again in my head!“, she explained with a sigh, wondering again why she was so open with this young man when she usually wouldn't talk about this to anyone. Again, she could only find the explanation that Hadley seemed to her more removed from that awful moment of her life because he belonged to this completely different world and didn't have his own experiences of coming down to Earth like the other Arkers did.

Tag: Hadley Edwards

[Hadley Edwards]

tag: Emilia Tucker

Hadley would never have the right answers for this situation. He had never been through it himself. He couldn't even imagine losing the person he loved in the same moment as losing his child. It would be mortifying and probably kill him. But Emilia was being so strong...even telling him about it had to take a lot of strength. He was lost in his own thoughts until he felt her hand on top of his. He looked down at their connected hands and then back up at her when he heard her voice again. 


He smiled warmly. "Sometimes you need to talk about it...you lost the two people you love most in one instant..." he said softly, not sure where his mind was going with all of this, but went with it anyway. "Work can only be a distraction for so long....after a- after a while life creeps back up on you..and well...you remember why you had to distract yourself in the first place." He squeezed her hand gently. "It's okay to cry...it's okay to miss them..." He swiped his thumb under her eye once more to grab a fallen tear that had escaped both of them before. 


"I-I know we just met...and I'm your sworn enemy, but" He stopped and looked into her eyes again. "I'm not here to judge you or make you upset. I promise..." He gave her a soft, consoling smile. "So please, what can I do to make you feel better?" He didn't know what he could possibly do, but if she wanted it, he would find a way to make it happen. 

[Emilia Tucker]

Emilia rubbed the backs of her hands over her wet face some more, but her expression wasn't as sombre anymore. She found it hard to admit, but crying for those she'd lost actually made her feel a little better, relieved somehow. She'd worked so hard on suppressing those feelings of grief and pain which had actually made her feel a little guilty, as if she didn't aknowledge the love she felt for them. Now she realized that weight pressing down on her chest had become a little lighter.

Emilia looked at Hadley with a soft smile although her eyes were still shining with tears. „This has actually already made me feel a little better. Still, I don't really want to get used to all this crying.“, she said and let out a little snort. The Arker wiped at her left eye again while she leaned forward to pick up her glass and take a sip of her wine.
„I'm sorry for this. This wasn't what I imagined for our first night of socializing out of work. Well...I didn't really imagine doing that at all, but you get what I mean.“, she continued with a nervous chuckle and drank some more wine because she was feeling embarrassed once more.

Tag: Hadley Edwards

ooc: Sooo sorry for the long wait! *hides*